Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 6 Jan 1998 14:19:36 -0600 (CST) | From | "Patrick St. Jean" <> | Subject | Re: PROPOSAL: /proc/dev (new idea) |
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On Tue, 6 Jan 1998, Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote: > (pat)> I'm thinking about just modifying the kerneld to look up a table > (pat)> of them and have a short circuit in the devfs for a "file not > (pat)> found on open" case. > > I think a sysctl or something like that would be good here. That would > move the policy out of the kernel and unbundle it from the other aspects > of devfs. Something like: > > sysctl( SEND_ENOENT_TO_KERNELD, "/dev" ); >
Anyone else like this idea for autoloading?
Pat
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